Yum/Apt repositories in Package Management

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:26, Dan Goodes wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Just a question (that's what mailing lists are for)... In the improved 
> package management software (now including support for apt and yum 
> repositories), does the sources list file support username/password 
> authentication for repositories? I have a "premium" account on my local 
> apt repository that requires me to login with u/p. With Synaptic, I can 
> specify the username and password in the form http://user:pass@host/ or 
> ftp://user:pass@host/. Last time I checked, Yum did not support this 
> (however it was added to the CVS for yum after a quick discussion on the 
> yum mailing list). Will the package management support it? 

yum supports user:pass at host.

-sv